[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] git repository for sysvinit

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Wed Jul 13 13:23:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Thinking about this some more, it should be possible to
> edit the history to graft the subsequent history on the
> master branch after this commit which would make the
> entire history linear.  It's just a matter of finding the
> necessary git magic.  (Not a standard rebase, since we
> don't want any of the trees to change, just the parent
> of one commit.)  Once that's done, it's just a simple
> matter of retagging.

If you do that, please rewrite the full history (git filter-branch) so that
the graft becomes a real connection, and can be removed.

We're not using that repo yet, there is no reason to have a graft there as
anything more than a temporary measure.

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  Henrique Holschuh



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